Chapter 8
By: MysticFantasy
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Tony was flying as fast as his suit could go in order to get to the coordinate location. The others were in a Quinjet but they were a good distance behind him. It would be at least a few minutes before they caught up to him.
He glanced at the map in his mask and saw that he was closing in on the location. He was out in the country and so far only a small mountain range was all that he could see. The map was indicating that the location where the signal came from would be by those mountains.
The closer he got the more he realized that the mountains were where he was going. The distance quickly shrank and became nothing.
"Jarvis, are you sure this is right?" Tony asked as he flew around the area looking for Steve's location.
"Yes sir. You are at the location where Captain Rogers' signal came from." the AI answered.
"There!" Tony exclaimed as he spotted a familiar two storied house behind the mountain. It was the same house from the picture of Steve and the Commando's.
The genius billionare landed and quickly made his way into the house.
"Steve!" he shouted entering the foyer. He noted how clean everything looked. Someone was recently in this house and he was sure that it was the very man he was looking for. "Steve!"
Tony made his way into the living room and almost slipped when he stepped into something slippery. He looked down and his eyes went wide when he saw he was standing in a pool of dark red liquid.
Greatly hoping that his eyes were playing a trick on him, Tony's eyes followed the red trail and he gasped when he saw where it was coming from.
"Steve!" He shouted as he rushed over to the unmoving, pale and bloody form of the captain. He used his armor to check for vitals and he almost let out a cry of relief when he saw that Steve still had a pulse and was still breathing.
But both signs weren't doing very well and Tony could easily see why. There were at least six bullet wounds covering Steve's body.
"How in the world..." Tony gasped and heard the sounds of enginges coming from outside. Sure enough, just a few seconds later, the sounds of footsteps were quickly approaching.
"Cap, if you can hear me, we're gonna get you out of here." Tony vowed.
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Thor quietly paced around the table. His arms folded over his large chest and his face showing concern and worry.
Clint and Tony sat perfectly still in their respective chairs. It wasn't hard to tell that they were doing their best to keep themselves seated and not tear down the halls to the medical wing to get some information.
Fury stood at the head of the table looking as calm and collected as he always does. It was a talent that only he could possess but even the remaining Avengers knew that he was concerned about the super soldier like they were. He wouldn't be very happy to learn that the worlds only super soldier was lost to them.
Bruce was helping in the medical wing. As soon as the Quintjet had landed on the Helicarrier he had forced himself into helping save Steve. He's been with the doctor's in the operating room ever since they arrived.
Natasha sat in her chair quietly. She looked perfectly calm and collected but Clint could easily tell that she was anything but. The very man she cares for is lying on an operating table with his life in the balance.
She had not taken it lightly when she had rushed into the secret safe-house and saw Steve lying in a large pool of his own blood and his body littered with bullet wounds.
The entire flight back, she had been at his side. Speaking to him softly and holding his hand. Telling him that things were going to be alright and promising that she would be at his side when he opened his eyes.
Two hours had gone by and no one had heard anything about Steve's condition. Bruce had promised that he would let them all know how the soldier was as soon as he could and everyone was hoping that he hadn't forgotten about that.
Tony was about to speak when the doors to the bridge opened. Fury and the remaining Avengers looked up to see Bruce walking in with a tired look on his face.
None of them failed to notice the spots of blood that littered the scrub he was wearing.
"He's stable." Bruce announced.
The Avengers and Fury all sighed greatly in relief.
"He did lose a lot of blood so he's still in pretty fragile condition and he'll need to take it easy for a while." Bruce added.
"How many times was he shot?" Fury asked.
"Seven times."Bruce answered after a short moment of silence. "All of the shots were clean through. Nothing shattered or anything important broken. Steve'll just need to rest for a while and be on bed rest."
"I dare you to tell him that to his face when he wakes up." Tony lightly declared.
"The first thing that we are going to do when he wakes up is find out who did this to him." Fury stated.
"That's a good start." Clint said. "That hide-out house really was in a secret location. We had a time trying to find it."
"Well, it's location is going to be kept a secret. Everyone present at this table are the only ones who know about it." Fury stated.
"Before we found out about it, Steve was the only one who knew where it was. Who else could have known about it?" Bruce asked.
"With the location the house was in, there's no way anyone else could have known unless Steve told them." Natasha said finally managing to speak.
"There's no way that would happen." Tony said. "It's one of very few places that hasn't changed since his time. He'd want it to stay the same. Not let anyone mess with it."
"So the question remains, who did it?" Fury stated as the room fell into silence once more.